- The water wasn't safe, so the English used drink beer
- By 1650 they had started drinking tea and coffee and since before they were drunk, the Enlightenment started when tea and coffee spread.
- From pub to coffeehouse
- The architecture of the space allowed ideas to have sex
- Been studying what environments breed ideas, patterns
- Chaotic environments
- Important ideas have long incubation periods, they fade into view
- Building barricades around ideas - copyright, patenting - which stifles many of them
- Noodling around, hacking
- Chance favors the connected mind - ideas that pop into your head by chance because people suggest reasons and uses for your ideas, stimulating your imagination
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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